“Attempt to raise the sunken sensations of this distant past; your self will become the stronger for it, your loneliness will open up and become a twilit dwelling in which the noise other people make is only heard far off. And if from this turn inwards, from this submersion in your own world, there c…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“If your everyday life seems to lack material, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to summon up its riches, for there is no lack for him who creates and no poor, trivial place.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“The whole ideal of Teaism is a result of this Zen conception of greatness in the smallest incidents of life. Taoism furnished the basis for aesthetic ideals, Zennism made them practical.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“A special contribution of Zen to Eastern thought was its recognition of the mundane as of equal importance with the spiritual. It held that in the great relation of things there was no distinction of small and great, an atom possessing equal possibilities with the universe. The seeker for perfection…”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“One who could make of himself a vacuum into which others might freely enter would become master of all situations. The whole can always dominate the part.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“To keep the proportion of things and give place to others without losing one's own position was the secret of success in the mundane drama. We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that of the individual.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“But my heart is agitated, it has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it's become passionate...It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights...”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's g…”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Not for the first time, I sensed that those who know love and those who enjoy life are not the same people.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everyt…”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“I want to tell you about your heart—you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“It only takes a single night of frost to kill off an entire generation. To live, then, is a matter of time, of timing.”— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com
“If you gotta force it, just leave it alone. Relationships, friendships, ponytails.. Just leave it.”— Reyna Biddy, twitter.com
“What no one ever talks about is how dangerous hope can be. Call it forgiveness with teeth.”— Clementine Von Radics, amazon.com
“Because I was right. For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home.”— Stephanie Perkins, amazon.com
“I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans.”— John Wesley, en.wikiquote.org